_Chan._ That which is to be reserved in secresy I desire not to see; there will be sufficient besides to show your powers.
_Chan._ I should counsel you, before your departure out of this kingdom, to make a visit to the Prince of Sweden; he will take it in good part, and it will testify a respect of the Protector to him, and render the alliance the more firm.
_Wh._ It is my purpose to visit the Prince; not that I am in doubt of the validity of the treaty made with the Queen, unless the Prince approve of it, but, as you advise, to show the respect of the Protector to his Kingly Highness, and to acquit myself of a due civility.
_Chan._ It will be fit for you to do it; and I shall advise you, at your return home, to put the Protector in mind of some particulars which, in my judgement, require his special care.
_Wh._ I shall faithfully do it, and I know they will be received with much the more regard coming from you: I pray do me the favour to let me know them.
_Chan._ I would counsel the Protector to take heed of those dangerous opinions in matters of religion which daily increase among you, and, if not prevented and curbed, will cause new troubles, they never resting till themselves may domineer in chief.
_Wh._ Will not the best way to curb them be to slight them, and so they will fall of themselves?
_Chan._ I doubt they have taken too much root to fall so easily; but if they be not countenanced with preferments, they will the sooner wither and decay.
_Chan._ The Protector must also be careful to provide money and employment for his soldiers, else he will hardly keep them in order.
_Wh._ That is very requisite; and for money there is good provision already made.
_Chan._ He must likewise be watchful of the King's party, who will be busy at work, especially upon the new change.
_Wh._ The care thereof is the life of our affairs, and his Highness is most vigilant.
_Chan._ It behoves him to be so, for they that could not vanquish him by arms will endeavour to do it by craft and treachery of your own party, which you must look to.
_Wh._ He hath good intelligence of their plots.
_Chan._ It will also be prudence in him to let the people see that he intends not to rule them with an iron sceptre, nor to govern them by an army, but to give them such a liberty and enjoyment of the benefit of their laws that the continuance of his government may become their interest, and that they may have no cause to desire a change; else, though they must bear the yoke for a time, yet as soon as they meet with an opportunity they will shake it off again.